Two former Iranian soldiers have been executed over the 2019 deaths of two police officers, a senior judiciary official said Wednesday.

"The death penalty was applied against two perpetrators of an act of terrorism committed in February 2019," the head of the judicial authority in western Lorestan province, Mohammad Razm, was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.

He did not specify the date of the executions.

Razm had said in 2019 that two former soldiers had shot at police at a petrol station in provincial capital Khorramabad, causing a tanker to explode and resulting in the death of two officers.

He said the soldiers had been expelled from the army, without providing reasons for their expulsion.

According to rights group Amnesty International, Iran is second only to China in its use of the death penalty, with at least 246 people executed in 2020.

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